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I've recreated the opening crawl in After Effects, and I'm very happy with it for the most part, but as the text gets abot halfway up the screen, it has this annoying, unwanted shimmer. What seems to happen is that letters like a's and e's have this strange drag on the center part of the letter, like the outer thirds are moving correctly, but the resolution isn't high enough to display proper movement of the entire letter, so the middle section seems to stay in place or move out of conjunction with the rest of the letter. When many of the letters do this in concert, it looks totally crappy.
I've inspected the quicktimes of the original rip from the DVD, and it's not in the original crawl, though in general the letters seem a little less defined in the original crawl. Not blurry, but the kind of "averaged out" look that comes from taking something at film resolution and dropping it down to standard def. I've tried applying some depth of field blur to my crawl using the 3D camera, but it's not really the same.
Interestingly enough, the original crawl does have that shimmer when worked with and spit back out on to a single layer dvd. I guess the compression brings it out.
Anyone recognizae this problem? I've seen it in some other fan created crawls as well... but I know it's not in the original DVD, at least at it's original compression level, and I'd like to try and match that.
